Greetings from İstanbul! This post is so true btw; we love cats :) I have a Scottish Fold and a couple more in the garden of our apartment waiting to be fed every day :))

Who would want to go to a cafe with no cats anyways. Istanbul, here I come!

I have two Ginger squatters in my back yard for the last eight years. They get fed of course and all were fixed and both are males and they cuddle and groom each other. Their sister cannot join them in the shelter I have for them so I made another one for her. She says good morning by head butting and they do the same to her but they won't let her sleep with them.

Awesome post bro. Love the beautiful pictures. Did you tracked down your clone?

Love that you captured pics of the wonderful feline friends of Istanbul. I was there 2 years ago amd couldn't stop paying my affections to them all. ❤️

I love how happy you and the cats are in the pictures :) It makes me happy :-)

I love that eating around that gorgeous kitty in the cafe made you "happy inside". Thanks for sharing and making me "happy inside" :)

I share your experience. Istanbul is such an amazing place and I saw so many incredible sights and met the friendliest people. When I returned home, I was going through my pictures and found they were mostly of cats. They are literally everywhere and I obviously couldn't resist snapping each and every one.

What a lovely article. Thank you for sharing your photo's. I'm allergic to cats horribly so I enjoy stuff like this 'cause it's the closest I can get to them! HUGS

That sunset is stunning!! And this guy always feeding the stray cats around the same area, check him out: https://www.youtube.com/user/summertimeinturkey/videos

Omg you are just adorable ♡ my heart completely melted seeing how much you love cats!! 😍😍 and i feel so jeleaous! I would LOVE to go to Istanbul to find all these strays just to give them a cuddle! Thank you for sharing this story and your pictures, greatly appreciated!! (And - i love how you also found your clone 😂 you look like you could be twins. Or the same person.) All my love for you, mr traveler, you have a warm heart i wish more people had !

Aw i love this post!

Nice pictures. If you want to stop animal suffering, spay or neuter them.

Cats cuddel all the time. You are blessed

This is tooo much! How awesome!???

This is adorable. I love how the people of Turkey take care of these beautiful animals. And I see cats cuddling like this everyday. 5 strays come to sleep and hang out in my backyard everyday and they all cuddle with each other. Literally one on top of the other. I have photos but they’re magnified so not as great quality as these. I take them from my bedroom window because one of them is really jittery and I don’t want to disturb her lol.

when am i gonna get a girl who can cuddle me like this

Love this post. It's pretty cool and says more then you think. That cats are OK at the tables and people are too speaks volumes for how both parties are used to each other. This is pretty cool

This is wonderful. Nice guy

Turkish delights! I think the cats collectively dreamed of your arrival.🐈🐅🐱

Wonderful post, and love the kitties and love the author! Thank you for this! And I hope you can communicate one day with your doppelganger!

A friend told me that that guy is a world famous movie star.

I heard Istanbul really respects and likes their stray cats and they are quite happy there. Hope it's true :)

Thank you for your photos, all the cats are adorable, I have two rescued that I so love, but I do know cats don't let you put them in a stage, I take many photos of them but miss some as they move too much, I do wonder about the cats that are free, no concern about too many, or disease , also, you could think about a companion to travel with, ask a vet for information, if you have their shots with certificate, just a thought, happy travels, from Canada !!!

I believe (if I'm not mistaken,) that two cats will only usually cuddle each other if they are sibblings, that grew up together. Adorable!!!

I thought this thread was supposed to be all about the cats. So how come the last half of the pictures are all scenes from Istanbul with no cats in them. The pictures are great! But the title should read something like "I photographed Istanbul's residents..including some very cuddly cats."

I Love this !!!!! You are a wonderful soul; it's obvious from the way you are with the cats..thanks for sharing this!